Sale 2393
Hong Kong
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28 November 2007
Price realised
HKD 162,500
Estimate
A JADEITE CARVING Designed as a very well-carved jadeite chinese cabbage of light green ground suffused with white patches and semi translucency, with a mantis and a grasshopper representing the rebus of 'always lucky', to the carved wooden stand, cabbage approximately 15.1 x 7.7 x 5.2 cm With report no. KJ25025 dated 24 July 2007 from the Hong Kong Jade & Stone Laboratory stating that the carving is natural jadeite and no polymer is detected
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